Distributed Solutions Company Profile

Distributed Solutions, Inc. (DSI) was founded in 1992 with a mission to develop software tools to address the need of acquisition professional to keep current with rapidly evolving trends and changes in acquisition practices, document content and regulatory mandates. DSI divided acquisition needs into three areas, tracking, document generation, and research, and developed three tools, ProTrac, ProDoc, and RegSearch, to address each area. Together these products combine to deliver a complete electronic solution called the Automated Acquisition Management System (AAMS). They can also be configured to form companion solutions in similar areas such as Grants and Program/Funds Management.

Traditional Approaches Fall Short

In addressing the needs of the acquisition professional, DSI realized that traditional software development methodologies and sales concepts fall short in delivering real and immediate value to the contracting, program and finance offices. Waterfall-based methods that rely on rigid and time-consuming processes simply cannot keep pace with the scope and variety of political and regulatory change evident in the acquisition management profession. The nature of monolithic software purchases and traditional information-technology-consulting-style development cycles mandate that the client will receive too little, too late, for too much investment.

Our Knowledge-Base-Driven Approach

To address these issues, DSI adopted a philosophy of knowledge-base-driven software and subscription-based updates and services. Knowledge-base-driven software is premised on the design of software that is 80% plus driven by the data definitions and rules contained in a knowledge base. Change is managed by internal DSI knowledge-base-administration systems which are run by subject matter experts familiar with the federal acquisition process and its requirements. Updated knowledge base elements are delivered as data to clients on a routine basis and contain the latest regulatory content and interpretations as well as client-specific change and additions.

DSI's knowledge base approach offers our clients the ability to implement core solutions quickly in order to gain immediate benefits, and then adopt an iterative approach to agency-specific configuration and enhancement appropriate to available staff, abilities, and budgets.

Software By Subscription

DSI's regulatory subscriptions ensure that regulatory currency is pushed routinely to the client and that system users within an agency are presented with the latest policy, procedural and data collection guidance. DSI also provides a software subscription which ensures that the software tools are current with the latest technological advances, new product features, and key e-Government (e-Gov) initiatives such as the Integrated Acquisition Environment.